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The following is a journal entry from Salina, one of my characters in Pathfinder society games. This was the first adventure I played with her, and these are my actual notes during gameplay. I did get better at writing interesting journal-type entries as time went on, so they do improve later. And I will provide a little bit more context for the actual game below. Keep in mind, there are spoilers if you ever intend to play this scenario.


Thornkeep: The Accursed Halls - City of Thornkeep


Tower, top and red, door puzzles. Cursed door puzzles. Half-eaten carcass of pig staked to floor, killed some giant centipedes. Columns, debris, open archways, goblins! Rubble, water sounds eastlike. Don't like water. Luminous blue water, glowing blue tiles. Evil statue in middle of next room. Much better than water. But the magic users won't let me touch. Cracked open sarcophagi. 3 dead adventurers on the floor around it. Stole orange eyes from evil statue. Picked up a Lapis Lazuli after fighting some weird evil shadow cloud goblin? We suspect all of these amazing gems will be used to open the door. Hopefully, we can pull them back out and I can make a tiara out of them.

Weird pit, more evil water, columns and dank caves. More water and more goblins. Goblins are playing dice. Wonder if they would let me play? Oh, we're shooting them. And their dice are probably gross.

More cavern shit with an improvised camp. Found peridots on some fancy magic goblin. Then we found a room with weird purple mist of illusion. Mist turned white when Johnny picked up another jewel. Ruby eyes in another statue and we opened the door with ROYGBIV.


The really important part about the evil statue with the orange eyes, which we totally wound up needing, by the way, is that it cast a silence spell in the room. So anyone who was in that room, with that statue, could not hear a thing. So the party left Sal in the back, even though they all knew that she wanted to climb that statue and get those gems. And when they weren't looking, she went back and grabbed them. While she was doing that, however, the rest of the party was getting their butts kicked in the next room. My character was the only one who could do slashing damage, which was necessary for those particular enemies. We have played with one of those characters multiple times since then, and he still has a complex. He doesn't do front line combat, and if he just grab the money and run, he will. I still feel a little bad about that one.

Overall, it was a really fun game, and a fantastic way to start off this character.



I have this very real problem where when I start reading a book, I feel like I have to finish it, no matter how bad it is. So I'm currently reading the Cozy Halloween Cozy Mystery Boxed Set by Addison Moore because I got it free from Amazon Kindle. These books are some of the worse things I have ever read.

We're going to ignore the fact, for the moment, that romance is probably the only book genre that I 100% will not read. Although these books are positively dripping in sexual tension. The writing is simply awful. She can't keep track of whether the story is in the first or the third person. Every time a character's name is mentioned, they magically appear. Every single character is described as if the main character, Lottie Lemon, wants to jump their bones, and considering that everyone acts like a sex-starved housewife all the time, she probably does.

The supposed mystery in each book is a murder, and Lottie just happens to stumble upon the body, every single time. The rest of the book involves her gathering up her harem of friends and frenemies to 'investigate' by going to random social events where tensions run high, sexual hijinx ensue, and she just happens to hear the murderer discussing the crime with someone else.

Throw in some random ghosts (of people and animals alike) and awkward descriptions of her baked goods, and you have three truly awful books. Addison Moore should drop the mystery charade and write romance novels on purpose.

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